Sammy Hagar Calls Out Eddie Van Halen

Sammy Hagar Calls Out Eddie Van Halen

[Samuel Roy “Sammy” Hagar (born October 13, 1947):]Source: LYBIO.net
It’s really irritating to see them go after Mikey. Mikey didn’t do anything ever to Van Halen. Mikey was the most loyal guy in the band. He was the guy, the first guy there at rehearsal, the last guy to leave, the guy that was – the first guy at the gig, the guy that flew the – carried the banner, the flag, the VH banner, he carried it every night. And the horseman with the flag, the flagman on the horse in the calvary. That was Michael Anthony, okay? A hundred percent dedicated. Never did anything to hurt those guys. And they try to hurt him again, and again, and again.

For Eddie to say he had to show him what to play and had to teach him all those songs, that is the biggest line of bullshit I’ve ever heard in my life. I was in that band for 11 years, there was never a video camera involved of Eddie showing him what to play. Eddie would tell him what to play once in a while, and say, no, Mike, don’t play with that many notes. Just stay on one note boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So that I can fuck up and nobody will know it. It was that kind of shit. And I am telling you straight up, especially on the ’04 reunion tour, if Mike would have played any more than one note, it would have been showing that Eddie wasn’t playing the right chords again and again and again; I couldn’t sing to him, you couldn’t play bass to him. So that is a lot of bullshit.

And I don’t know why they go after him like that. He doesn’t deserve it. He’s one of the greatest rock and roll bass players ever in the world. Michael Anthony is Top 5 rock and roll bass player in the world. Any bass player will tell you that, any musician will tell you that. Listen to him play on The Circle. He ain’t going ‘boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom unless it was called for.